Police Say They Have Their Hands on the Alleged Healthcare CEO Killer’s Notebook

“What bash you do? You wack the C.E.O. astatine the yearly parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t hazard innocents.” Those lines reportedly travel from a notebook recovered successful the possession of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old antheral suspected of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

After Mangione was taken into custody earlier this week astatine a McDonald’s successful Altoona, Pennsylvania, the nationalist has dilatory begun to larn astir the antheral that constabulary judge committed 1 of the astir audacious murders successful surviving memory.

That murder, which took spot connected Dec. 4th successful midtown Manhattan, saw Thompson gunned down successful beforehand of his edifice by a masked assailant. Security camera footage shows a fig dressed successful grey attire who, aft sidesplitting Thompson, stepped onto an e-bike and rode away. Bullet casings recovered astatine the transgression country were etched with the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose”—which immoderate person speculated whitethorn notation a publication astir the healthcare industry.

Now, constabulary accidental they person gotten their hands connected a notebook belonging to Mangione. The New York Times reports that the notebook “detailed plans for the shooting,” and besides “described going to a league and sidesplitting an executive.” The Times study doesn’t shed overmuch airy connected the different contents of the notebook, penning that the lines that had been shared were communicated to the insubstantial by 2 instrumentality enforcement officials. It’s imaginable that, arsenic transgression proceedings progress, much of the notebook’s contents whitethorn beryllium shared.

Mangione is besides thought to person written a “manifesto,” which instrumentality enforcement sources claim is legitimate. This expected papers was published online earlier this week by autarkic writer Ken Klippenstein and, successful 1 section, reads: “I bash apologize for immoderate strife of traumas but it had to beryllium done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 astir costly healthcare strategy successful the world, yet we fertile astir #42 successful beingness expectancy.” The manifesto besides mentions a “spiral notebook” that the papers states should “illuminate the gist of it,” seeming to allude to motivations for the shooting.

Thompson’s decease has predictably polarized the internet—and America. Rightwing influencers astir instantly sought to represent Mangione arsenic a leftist, with LibsofTikTok calling him an “anti-capitalist climate-change activist.” Meanwhile, left-leaning accounts were much than blessed to lionize the young man, with galore radical commenting connected Mangione’s bully looks, and others expressing enactment for sidesplitting firm executives. Indeed, a broad, bipartisan dislike of the healthcare manufacture has made itself known implicit the past week, with galore radical expressing their disdain for it via jokes and memes, galore of which person been made astatine the murdered healthcare executive’s expense.

That said, a wide representation of Mangione’s idiosyncratic authorities hasn’t yet emerged. The Wall Street Journal referred to him arsenic an “Ivy Leaguer with Anticapitalist Leanings.” The scouring of Mangione’s public-facing societal media accounts has turned up a hodgepodge of interests and governmental leanings that don’t look to acceptable into a coherent partisan picture. He did reportedly permission a favorable publication reappraisal connected Goodreads of Ted Kaczynski, the erstwhile promising young mathematician who took portion successful a CIA caput power experiment successful the 1950s and went connected to go “the Unabomber,” an anarchist violent who mailed bombs to people.

It’s been reported that Mangione is from a wealthy, well-connected household and that helium antecedently worked arsenic a machine programmer. A video posted online shows the young antheral giving a valedictorian code astatine his backstage prep schoolhouse graduation successful 2016. At immoderate point, Mangione suffered a debilitating backmost injury. He is said to have abruptly dropped disconnected the radar successful the months earlier the shooting, prompting immoderate to speculate that thing happened during that play to radicalize him towards violence. Mangione’s parent reportedly filed a missing person’s report with the San Francisco Police Department connected Nov. 18th.